I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere

I wish someone were waiting for me somewhere (A Cemetery Scenery)

2006, installation of wall drawing and mdf boards/80x40x0.5cm, Konstfack University/Stockholm, Galleri Hörnan/Falun (2008)

About this work I could say the same thing as about ”And in my heart…”: it is an attempt to affect the hierarchies within art, by transferring an emotionally charged and eternally pressing subject (again the cemeteries of Paris) into the sometimes sterile art environment, mixing them and playing with the two different aesthetics or phenomena. It was an attempt to make a contemporary and unsentimental work about an eternal and traditionally sentimental subject. Further, the work was (strangely) about learning French, and evidently about investigating the national, cultural and linguistic differences in design and use of memorial sites and monuments. ”Souvenir” for example, which in French means ”memory”, rather means ”gift from a foreign country” in secularized Sweden. And since the work would be exposed there, I wanted to play with the interpretation possiblilites, and the possibilities to differently perceive this sort of communication. The work was later exposed at Galleri Hörnan in Falun (2008).